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Honoré-Victorin Daumier

The Evening of the National Holiday. It never fails... you go out to see the fireworks, and all you get is waterworks!, plate 20 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie

published August 21, 1844
Lithograph in black, with scraping on stone on cream wove paper (sheet folded to form four pages), with text added in another hand and letterpress verso (and recto when unfolded)
22.5 × 22.4 cm (8.9 × 8.8 in)

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